Caramel gingerbread with rum and lemon notes

Caramel gingerbread with rum and lemon notes

Category: Culinary recipes

Ingredients
Sugar	130 gr.
Honey	170 g
Butter	125 gr.
Soda	2 tsp
Yolks	2 pcs.
Wheat flour	about 550 gr.
Boiling water	50 gr.
Rum (optional)	2 tbsp. l.
Dry perfume: cinnamon, cardamom, star anise, coriander, ginger, mint	to taste and desire
Vanilla extract	1 tsp (optional)
Zest of one lemon (optional)

Cooking method

• This recipe is dedicated to everyone who does not yet have a New Year's mood :))) Bake gingerbread - and it will certainly appear, this is the very mood, you will see!
• Pour sugar into a saucepan with a thick bottom and place on fire so that it melts to an amber color
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• When the sugar is completely melted and reaches the desired color (I don’t burn it until very dark, I like the golden color), very carefully, pour 50 grams into it in a thin stream. boiling water, stirring vigorously
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• At the same time, caramel can collect in lumps, it's not scary, we continue to stir and everything melts again. As soon as everything melts again, add honey, turn off the heat and stir well again
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• Then, again achieving uniformity and transparency, add spices and soda and stir well
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• The baking soda reacts with honey, a rich lush foam appears and the mixture brightens
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• Having admired this spectacle, we add butter and lemon zest to the mixture
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• Stir everything again thoroughly, achieving uniformity, and let the mixture cool down to at least 60 degrees. After waiting for cooling, add yolks, vanilla and rum
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• Naturally, we knead everything well again and start adding flour: first like this
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• then so
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• And after that it was like this:
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• The dough will have the following consistency:
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• Then we divide the dough into four parts.
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• And, packed in a bag or film, we send it to the refrigerator for about a day
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• Well, then everything is as usual: we roll out the fourth part of the dough 3-4 mm thick, cut out the figures, put them on a baking sheet (I have a Teflon mat, but you can also use a silicone one) and bake in the oven at 190 degrees for 5-6 minutes.
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• Enjoy your pre-holiday troubles and great mood! :)))

The dish is designed for

The total weight of the dough is about 1 kg.

Time for preparing:

40 minutes

Cooking program:

Handles and then the oven

Vikulya, what wonderful gingerbreads, the recipe is cool !!! : girl_claping: Bookmarked))) And caramel, and honey, and spices ... And even rum with zest, I will definitely try))

[kirpochka]

kirpochka, try for health, Natulya, I hope the result will not disappoint you: they are really very fragrant)))

[Vika]

Vikahow beautiful, festive and tasty it is here! like New Year's cards, beautiful!

[Myrtle]

Myrtle, thanks, Natasha, the gingerbread is so addictive :)))

Girls, I was baking my gingerbreads again and I thought that I didn’t tell you a very important thing: if you don’t want to make gingerbread cookies for painting, then they can be made in the usual shape by rolling and slightly flattening balls of the size that you like. That's how it is here in the upper left corner, see?

And then you will get absolutely amazing homemade gingerbread cookies, crunchy on the outside and sooooo soft on the inside, like this:

And at the break, these are:

I tried to take a picture as close as possible, and this, of course, affected the quality of the photo, sorry :))

[Vika]

Vika, this great idea and it suddenly occurred to me yesterday. I had to figure out how to make a strawberry for decoration for a children's cake. mastic I ...well, I don’t like it, so I rolled balls of gingerbread dough, gave them the shape of a berry, baked it))) lie-dry On Saturday I will paint)

gave them the shape of a berry, baked)))

Great, Ol! And delicious, and beautiful, and convenient :)) And I just always bake such gingerbread cookies and the remnants of the dough, which are no longer enough for the molds, and then they are always the first to be eaten :)))

Vikulya, thank you for the delicious gingerbread recipe !!! They are really fragrant and very tasty)

somehow passed by, I'm correcting. as inspiration visits, I will bake

[kirpochka]

kirpochka, Natulya, I am very glad that the recipe met expectations :)

What are the decorations for gingerbread?

What are the decorations for gingerbread?

Isingom (protein glaze): 90 gr. protein, 450-500 gr. powdered sugar, 5 drops of lemon juice.

[Kinglet]

Kingletwhat an unusual recipe, thanks.
Can the dough stay in the refrigerator for several days? Or maybe you can freeze it
It's just that sometimes you need to do a couple of things, but because of the small amount you don't want to start.

Can the dough stay in the refrigerator for several days?

Of course, maybe It only gets better from this. And you can freeze too

Vikulya, I baked gingerbread today, the smell of the house was just crazy, you can go. The dough keeps its shape well, the gingerbread cookies turned out to be even. I will draw tomorrow ..
Instead of rum, I added cognac ..:

Thanks for the interesting recipe. How are they stored? Will the icing last well until the new year?

[NM]

NM, Nadia, I am very glad that the recipe came in handy and that everything turned out great) Of course, cognac is a completely complete replacement for rum, I myself do this when there is no rum in the house
Meri klarissa, these gingerbreads are stored just fine, they can lie for more than six months if stored correctly: I pack each one in a polypropylene bag, and then put it in a hermetically sealed kitchen container.

Vikulya, I brought you a report on gingerbread! Thank you very much for the recipe, I really liked the dough at work, I got a lot of positive emotions.

It was rolled out 4 mm thick, baked at T -180 degrees for 6 minutes. On the "Baking" mode. Vikul, this is me as a keepsake

... I really liked the gingerbreads in taste, sweets in moderation, stunning aroma, now, as it were, not to spoil with your decorating

[Cvetaal]

Cvetaal, Svetul, well, I just smelled the aroma from the monitor screen and my hand itself reached out to grab at least one, well, they are delicious))

now, as if not to spoil with your decorating

Throw these thoughts out of your head and start boldly!) Well, you can't spoil the gingerbread with painting: firstly, it will still be beautiful and very, very cute, just trust me, relax and enjoy the process)) And, secondly , even if you don't like something in your painting, it is still much tastier with icing than without it, and this is very important. My dad loves to soak gingerbread in tea, for this purpose I first dragged unpainted gingerbread to him, until one day he was indignant: why are you bringing me a semi-finished product? I say: so that it’s easier for you to chew without glaze. And he told me: And who told you that the icing is hard to chew?))) Noooo, you give it to me as it should be, it tastes better with icing))))

[Vika]

Vika, and these gingerbreads are soft or not very? I would have for toothless to also fit.

I would have for toothless to also fit.

They are more than suitable) The thicker you roll them when baking, the softer you will get the result. But in fact, it is not difficult to make any gingerbread cookies soft, provided that they are baked correctly: take the gingerbread cookies, put them in a bag (in Kharkov they say "in a bag") or an airtight container, add to them:
- or apple cut
- or orange slice
- or a piece of any bread
to choose from. Close, leave overnight. Open in the morning - and voila: your gingerbread cookies will be soft like buns)))

Wonderful! As soon as I read the recipe, it smelled like a holiday, Christmas! I'll start tomorrow.

I'll start tomorrow.

I wish you easy, successful, fun baking and keep my fists so that the result will please)

The recipe is wonderful, festive, thanks!
I'll try too.
And in finished form, how long are they stored, and where?
The idea is to bake and then hang on the tree, no?

[Trishka]

Trishka, Ksyusha, try it, I hope you will not regret it, this is a very tasty recipe. And not complicated at all)

The idea is to bake and then hang on the tree, no?

Of course yes! They are just for the implementation of such thoughts!)) Pieki yourself and hang)) The hole can be done in a ready-made gingerbread with an ordinary drill (well, of course, newly bought, washed and rubbed with vodka)))

And in finished form, how long are they stored, and where?

They can be stored for more than six months, so it's time to start boldly)) I store them each in a bag with a sticky edge closed and put in an airtight container.

Noooo, you give it to me as it should be, it tastes better with icing))))

Vikul herself asked for it, just don't faint from fear, she put her horror stories under the spoiler.

All day I sat drawing, how difficult it is! There are still a lot of gingerbreads left, and I would like to embellish the white ones. I tried to apply icing with stencils, but they either move out of place, or the icing becomes numb under the drawing. How to work with them? Exhausted, horror. And it turns out that I don't know how to draw a snowman. I was also happy with the mold with a stamp, the gingerbread cookies turned out pretty, but it's wildly difficult to paint until it worked out at all. I will train, maybe I really liked this lesson

[Cvetaal]

Cvetaal, my, you are a bubochka!)) Svetik, what are these horror stories, well, how are you tongue the hand turned to write this)) Yes, these are the sweetest homemade Christmas cookies - gingerbread cookies, made with love and passion, spoken for happiness and health)) Well, it will get better and better later)) Use basic icing for the stencil, do not dilute it with water ... And if even the basic one will flow numb - add a little more powdered sugar, then it will be more convenient to work with it. And so, yes - stencil is not easy. Even now I am still very lucky if my daughter agrees to hold him, so it’s very convenient in four hands, so call someone for help, don’t hesitate) But then this someone will proudly tell that he decorated New Year's gingerbread)))

I will train, maybe I really liked this lesson

And I warned - it tightens ...)))

And I bake gingerbread cookies with holes. It is good to make them either with a thick cocktail tube or there are such plump tubes sold along with juices. Or you can use a smooth cream attachment.

[Painting]

Painting, you can do that, of course) But it happens either it will be forgotten, or I didn’t plan to make a hole Daughter, and then I wanted to))

I keep them each in a bag

Is this a separate bag for each?
And if just in an airtight container, if they are without decorations?

Is this a separate bag for each?

Well, I keep it that way, each in a separate one)

And if just in an airtight container, if they are without decorations?

Will go))

[Vika]

Vika, thanks for the recipe!
The gingerbread is delicious

[Wiki]

Wiki, Wiki, on health, I am very glad that I liked the recipe)) I am very glad that everyone who tried it had even - even gingerbreads in the photo, which clearly keep their shape - it means that the recipe is really successful)) Very, very nice, how and the aroma of these gingerbreads smells sweet in your house)

I'll show you decorated ones. We decorate as best we can



The top row, where the gingerbread biscuits are, is a different recipe.

Vikulechka, I only bake gingerbread according to your recipe. My gratitude knows no bounds! Recently I received a new felling, thanks to Tatiana (Pavlova). And here I am reporting: . One portion produced 12 snowflakes 19 cm in diameter.

[Svetlana]

Svetlanawhat beautiful snowflakes!

[Wiki]

Wiki, Wiki, Cvetaal, Svetik, girls, thank you very much for the beauty!)) You have organized a New Year's festive mood for me in the morning!)) Very, very beautiful and very festive - your gingerbread cookies are made with love and you can feel it even from a distance)

[Vika]

Vika, in general, gathered myself in a heap and kneaded the dough, it is already in the refrigerator.
This will be the first gingerbread in my life.
I don’t know what will happen. But hope
Everything is strictly according to the recipe, the only deviation is in spices. Due to the limitations of everyone, I put only vanillin, cinnamon and a little dried zest.
It smelled like honey cake ... and soda
Is that how it should be?
And won't there be this smell and taste after baking?
I will not bake until Saturday. For decoration, everything is ready, I will entrust this to my daughter-in-law, she has an architectural education, let her paint. That's why I decided to do it while they are with my grandson. I don't really need it, not an amateur. My husband can try, he loves baking with honey, so I will make it thicker so that they are softer.
So wait with a report or with valerian, how it goes

[Podmosvichka]

the only deviation is for spices.

Podmosvichka, Elena, spices are very individual, they can and should be replaced for yourself, so everything will be fine here)

It smelled like honey cake ... and soda
Is that how it should be?

No, it shouldn't be that way, soda is extinguished in honey, so, alas, I don't know the reason why your dough smelled like soda. I can only assume that for some reason the soda was poorly extinguished, maybe it was not mixed enough when added. Was the contents of the saucepan foaming well with the soda?

And won't there be this smell and taste after baking?

Unfortunately, I cannot answer this question, because my dough does not smell like baking soda. It smells like honey and spices. Perhaps due to the fact that you have less spices - is there a soda smell? Let's wait for the baking anyway, for some reason it seems to me that everything will be fine) please write how you can take a sample of the finished ones, okay?

So wait with a report or with valerian, so how will it turn out

I also went to stock up on valerian on Saturday))

Was the contents of the saucepan foaming well with the soda?

Perhaps due to the fact that you have less spices - is there a soda smell?

It froth well, and stirred for a long time, kept it on low heat, the honey did not disperse, although not candied. Maybe I really smell like soda because of the small amount of spices, or maybe also because I have a nose like a dog's. My husband sometimes offers to go to the police to work for drugs.

I also went to stock up on valerian on Saturday))

Here's another thing, spend money on all sorts of nonsense, I have a lot of it in stock.
Everything will be fine, in any case, the eaters will not carry it past the mouth

Maybe the new moon influenced, maybe the hands were already hooks, but everything went somehow wrong in my opinion - the sugar did not melt, the white pieces gathered, pulled out. I also thought, are we really using sugar? Or what is there mixed in it?
Liquid honey did not disperse. But the dough seems to have turned out, we will look at the result.
Vika, can I have a question?
We will most likely do only the outline by icing. And how can you lubricate the top so that the sprinkling holds?

What a great recipe, thanks!
I'll try to pamper my family)

Vika, lights out
Well I could not resist, I did one in the evening, on trial
It worked out yoho
Soda does not smell, delicate aroma and taste of vanilla and cinnamon aftertaste And soft
Everything in moderation, I forgot to take a picture of the class, they divided it into four pieces, and only then I remembered that I hadn’t shown it.
Well, this is then later, in all its glory, if we can master it, I will present it.

Good evening!
I tried to make this dough .., for some reason it froth badly, the color turned pale, of course, but the foam didn't rise much and didn't hiss ..Will it smell like baking soda? perhaps while she was stirring the honey for a long time, the mass had already cooled down, therefore, the soda was not extinguished, she kneaded the flour. now in the refrigerator. Has everything already ruined the dough with crooked hands?

Vika, take a semi-finished product.
It turned out 3 full baking sheets. No holes thicker, eat. With holes for the tree.
There are big doubts about the decoration, the small one eats just like that
Doubt his mom will paint at night
To bake in peace, I had to send them to the city to the store.
Oh, this is my helper

Everything will be fine, in any case, the eaters will not pass by the mouth

This is already consoling, the main thing in any dish is the right eaters)))

I also thought, do we really use sugar? Or what is there mixed in it?

But this, by the way, is the right question, unfortunately)) I read a lot of things in connection with confectionery, and so recently they have been complaining about the quality of sugar more and more often and I have already read more than once that not very high-quality sugar is quite capable of influencing on the result, it is clear that not for the better (

And how can you lubricate the top so that the sprinkling holds?

It's hard for me to answer this question, I only decorate with icing)

I'll try to pamper my family)

And thank you for trusting the recipe) Try it, and let the pleasure bring not only the result, but the cooking process itself))

Vika, lights out

Hurrah)))

It worked out yoho

Oh, how glad I am)))

Will it smell like baking soda?

To be honest, I don't think it will smell like soda, because there are endless recipes for honey dough, where honey and soda are simply combined. without any heating and all the same, the soda is extinguished during the kneading and baking process. Let's wait for baking and don't panic?))

take the semi-finished product.

An excellent semi-finished product, for rating 5)) In fact, they are really very tasty and without decoration, so please eat for pleasure and do not bother with the obligation to work more)) If you basically want to put the final touch, sprinkle with powdered sugar, I have this is how a friend eats and no one can convince her that there is something more delicious)))

Here I am, girls, I'm complaining about sugar, I'm already afraid of baking, where something is beaten with sugar. The icing also does not work - last time my gingerbread was prickly. Well, how can granulated sugar and water not dissolve when heated? And I buy sugar the most expensive, well-known brands.

sprinkle with powdered sugar, my friend eats like this and no one can convince her that there is something more delicious)))

Masiku is best without everything, otherwise he will speak beee
Yes, and the daughter-in-law is not burning with desire. As they want. Moor did his job

Well, how can granulated sugar and water not dissolve when heated?

But it didn't melt for me, it turned out white cakes, like plastic, I took out and threw away

To be honest, I don't think it will smell like soda, because there are endless recipes for honey dough, where honey and soda are simply combined. without any heating and all the same, the soda is extinguished during the kneading and baking process. Let's wait for baking and don't panic?))

I have this first gingerbread dough, I will bake tomorrow, I hope there will be no smell

Will not be checked
I also have the first, everything is OK